Bling Bling in the ATL

I'd like to know how you vote on SB 77 as it pertains to regulating a woman's right to chose.

I strongly oppose additional regulation on abortions. I believe every woman has not mererly the right but the moral obligation to choose when, how and with what counsel she will make decisions about abortion.

I find the 24 hour wait rule condescending. Imposing logistical difficulties on a women who faces the most important decision of her life is an insult to her sovereignty as a citizen and as a human being.

The provisions to "strengthen" the parental notification law are the most malignant portions of this law. Handcuffing survivors of incest to those who abuse them is worse than cruel indifference and hardly works to strengthen the moral fabric of the community.

Hindering a woman during her most private, most painful, most life-changing decisions is bad law, its bad politics, and in my humble opinion, it is spiritually immature.

I was reading Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Solitude of Self address to the Congressional Judiciary Committee on 1/18/1892 today. To me, that speech remains the simplest and most correct statement on a women inalienable rights as American citizens. I'm leaving you with one of the quotes that stuck out:

"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self-sovereignty; the right to an equal place, every where conceded; a place earned by personal merit, not an artificial attainment, by inheritance, wealth, family, and position. Seeing, then that the responsibilities of life rest equally on man and woman, that their destiny is the same, they need the same preparation for time and eternity. The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce sterns of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of the compass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer. Such are the facts in human experience, the responsibilities of individual. Rich and poor, intelligent and ignorant, wise and foolish, virtuous and vicious, man and woman, it is ever the same, each soul must depend wholly on itself."

Sincerely,

Ms. Bling in the ATL
Atlanta, GA 30306